Patents by Inventor Reed Bittinger

Reed Bittinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6148340
    Abstract: A method and system for efficiently updating container objects on remote systems. The method and system involve a server extension which determines whether the files within the container object have changed since the last time they were sent to the client. If they have changed, the server extension sends only the changed files with instructions on how to reconstruct the container object to a client extension. The client extension receives the changes and the instructions and reconstitutes the container object and transmits the container object to the client browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Reed Bittinger, Nils C. Brubaker, Barron Cornelius Housel, III, Steve Wang
  • Patent number: 5923326
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products provide a graphical user interface for a data processing system wherein a foster window associated with a secondary application program can be removably attached to a primary application window associated with a primary application program, such as a Web browser. The foster window can be automatically repositioned and/or resized in response to repositioning and/or resizing of the primary application window, such that the first and second windows maintain a generally rectangular attached configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Reed Bittinger, Keith Brafford, Kathy Khalifa, Mark Molander
  • Patent number: 5859971
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for reducing the data transmitted over an external communication link from a first application resident in a first computer to a second application resident in a second computer. The method, apparatus and computer program product include storing a data stream from the first application to be provided to the second application in response to a request from the second application in a cache resident in the first computer to create a server base cache entry and in a cache resident in the second computer to create a client base cache entry. Requests from the second application are interrogated to determine if a client base cache entry corresponding to the interrogated request exists and to determine if a server base cache entry corresponding to the interrogated request exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Reed Reed Bittinger, Michael Levi Fraenkel, Barron Cornelius Housel III, David Bruce Lindquist